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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CRIPPLES Matches Found: 32 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LITTLE LAME BOY'S VIEWS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On 'scursion-days - an' shows - an' Last Line: They ain't no bad folks anywheres! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Boys; Carnivals; Country Life; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples BLACK LIGHTNING, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A blind girl Last Line: Lightning. Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples CRIPPLE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once when I saw a cripple Last Line: The clear silent processional of stars. Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples CRIPPLED, by MARION PELTON GUILD Poem Text First Line: Beethoven deaf, and milton blind! Last Line: Crippled or no, we dare the race! Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Milton, John (1608-1674); Music & Musicians; Physical Disabilities; Wellesley College; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples DISABLED, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark Last Line: And put him into bed? Why don't they come? Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples; First World War EMBLEMS OF EXILE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hunchback in the park with halo of pigeons Last Line: Which the beggarman mind accepts but cannot reconcile Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Exiles; Hunchbacks; Physical Disabilities; Ugliness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples HOW STUMP STOOD IN THE WATER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ice had many sons. 'find me my food!' he shouted Last Line: On his own feet, holding his life in his hands Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples HUNCHBACK GIRL: SHE THINKS OF HEAVEN, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father, it is surely a blue place Last Line: Proper myself, princess of properness. Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples MEXICAN NURSERY RHYME: 9. CHANT FOR A STUMPED TOE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He may be lame Last Line: He's dear to me Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped;handicaps;physically Challenged;cripples MUTTERINGS OVER THE CRIB OF A DEAF CHILD, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How will he hear the bell at school Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Babies; Deafness; Labor & Laborers; Physical Disabilities; Infants; Work; Workers; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples OG MANDINO, by GEORGE BOND Poem Text First Line: Today, upon a bus Last Line: I’m blessed, indeed! The world is mine! Subject(s): Blessings; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples RHAPSODY OF THE DEAF MUTE, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: The expert said: 'all right. You needn't come any more' Last Line: And nothing can disturb the conversation. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Deafness; Physical Disabilities; Physicians; Speech Disorders; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples; Doctors; Stuttering; Muteness SIR W. TRELOAR'S DINNER FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is an ancient england in the new Last Line: Christmas and christ profoundly understood. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Charity; Children; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Dinners & Dining; England; Physical Disabilities; Philanthropy; Childhood; English; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples STUMPFOOT ON 42ND STREET, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A negro sprouts from the pavement like an asparagus Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples SWITCH-HITTERS, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many home runs / mickey mantle hit Last Line: Up and over the fence, a home run Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE ARMLESS ARTIST: CATASTROPHE, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Alas!' the father said Last Line: "this armless boy will ruin me." Subject(s): Grief; Mercy; Physical Disabilities; Tragedy; Sorrow; Sadness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE CITY OF THE OLESHA FRUIT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the window past the two hills there is the city Last Line: Somewhere inside the mind. Subject(s): Cities; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Physical Disabilities; Weather; Writing & Writers; Urban Life; Male-female Relations; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE CRIPPLED BEGGAR SPEAKS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, peter was shaggy, his garments were coarse Last Line: That he hadn't a penny that day! Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Kindness; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE CRIPPLED GIRL, THE ROSE, by DAVID FERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was as if a flower bloomed as if Subject(s): Roses; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE FREAKS AT SPURGIN ROAD FIELD, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dim boy claps because the others clap Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE HAPPY LITTLE CRIPPLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm thist a little crippled boy, an' never goin' to grow Last Line: "they's nary angel 'bout the place with ""curv'ture of the spine""!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Physical Disabilities; Childhood; Joy; Delight; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE LAME CHILD, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: He passed along our village street Last Line: Along his crippled years! Subject(s): Children; Physical Disabilities; Childhood; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE LEGLESS MAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mind goes back to fumin wood, and how we stuck it out Last Line: Lo! How it's silver-lined. Subject(s): Legs; Paris, France; Physical Disabilities; War; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE LITTLE CRIPPLE'S COMPLAINT, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a helpless cripple child Last Line: Leaning in my easy-chair. Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She must have been thirteen or so, her nascent breasts Subject(s): Teenagers; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE ROSE-COVERED GRAVE, SELECTION, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The morning arose, and its beauties were beaming Last Line: To sweeten the scene of the rose-covered grave! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Mothers & Daughters; Physical Disabilities; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE SIGHTLESS MAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the night a crash Last Line: And our night is lost in the greater night. Subject(s): Blindness; Paris, France; Physical Disabilities; Visually Handicapped; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE SORROWS OF THE BLIND, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pity the sorrows of the poor blind Last Line: And remember us at the judgment day. Subject(s): Blindness; Grief; Physical Disabilities; Visually Handicapped; Sorrow; Sadness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples TO THE DEFORMED X.R., by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As scriveners sometime delight to see Last Line: Even hated by thy nurse deformity. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE VOICE OF ONE BLIND, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blind, ah! Blind - it has come upon me now Last Line: I am come nearer now. Subject(s): Blindness; Physical Disabilities; Visually Handicapped; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples UPON A VERY DEFORMED GENTLEWOMAN, BUT OF A VOICE INCOMPARABLY SWEET, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I chanc'd sweet lesbia's voice to hear Last Line: Whilst she hath tongue, or I have eyes. Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Voices; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples VICTORY STUFF, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What d'ye think, lad, what d'ye think Last Line: Me that's wheeled in a chair. Subject(s): Loss; Paris, France; Physical Disabilities; Survival; Victory; War; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples |
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